>>>>> "jennyw" == jennyw <jennyw@dangerousideas.com> writes: [...] jennyw> I don't know if the cupsomatic install was necessary (I'm using jennyw> an HP LJ 4L via the parallel port). I also can't find jennyw> documentation on it -- I'm assuming that CUPS just knows it's jennyw> there? I didn't see a lot of printer choices come up when I was jennyw> using the Web interface to install the printer. I kind of jennyw> thought that from installing cupsomatic I'd see a list of more jennyw> vendors! cupsomatic probably wasn't necessary, because CUPS itself has support for HP printers. As for not having a lot of printer choices, I believe that some file somewhere needs to be updated before the web interface knows about the new drivers, and cupsomatic doesn't do the update. I get the same thing with gimp-print, and I'm not sure how to fix it. You would still be able to use the command-line interface set it up. All the drivers (PPD files, actually) would be in /usr/share/cups/model/. jennyw> I'm pretty sure libgimpprint1 is not necessary -- looking jennyw> through the packages again, I probably need to apt-get install jennyw> cupsys-driver-gimpprint in order to use gimp-print. At this jennyw> point, I'm not sure what advantage there would be to installing jennyw> that. The description for the package says that it has good jennyw> image quality, but I haven't noticed that not having it is jennyw> making my printing output look bad. Then again, I haven't jennyw> printed much. Any opinions on gimp-print with CUPS? Yup, libgimpprint1 would only be used by gimp-print. There is probably no advantage for you to use it. Probably the only difference you would be able to see might be in dithering of grey levels. jennyw> I don't think gs is being used right now because cupsys requires jennyw> cupsys-pstoraster, which seems to be it's PostScript processor. Yep, it looks like you're right. Looking at /usr/share/cups/mode/laserjet.ppd, the "*cupsFilter:" line suggests that that driver takes a cups-raster input, and it then uses the rastertohp program to convert it to PCL (which is what the printer understands). I'm surprised that it doesn't use gs at all. -- Hubert Chan <hubert@uhoreg.ca> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred.
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